From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway, to the Upper Middle West

by Jon Gjerde

Book Overview

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052126068X
• ISBN13: 9780521260688
• Release Date: March 1985
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"